> There seems to be something about the English language where people think gendered language relates to gender. This. Sometimes when people talk about using

> There seems to be something about the English language where people think gendered language relates to gender. This. Sometimes when people talk about using gender-neutral terms, I wonder how it would work in other languages. As you said, for some languages there is a gender for inanimate objects. In Arabic for example, apparently everything is either feminine or masculine. All countries are feminine, table is masculine, and chair is feminine [1], book is masculine, and car is feminine [2]. Other languages such as French, Russian, and Spanish also seems to assign genders to objects. The Sanskrit language on the other hand seems designed with feminine, masculine, and neuter, but some objects have a non-neuter gender anyway. Quoting from [3] (on Sanskrit): > "Fruit" is neuter, but "tree" is masculine! "City" is neuter, but "village" is masculine! "Army" and "knowledge" are feminine, but "action" is neuter! In truth, most nouns take a certain gender by default, and we cannot guess a noun's gender just by looking at a noun's meaning. [1] https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/noun-gender-in-arabic/ https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/noun-gender-in-arabic/ [2] https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/arb101/chapter/vocabulary-and-grammar-2/ https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/arb101/chapter/vocabulary-and-... [3] https://www.learnsanskrit.org/start/nouns/ https://www.learnsanskrit.org/start/nouns/